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Top 5 Social Media Best Practices for #GivingTuesday

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To tap this potential, your NGO, nonprofit, or charity needs to activate its social media presence before, during, and after #GivingTuesday to help build the movement and, in the process, raise awareness and funds for your organization and mission. Best Practice #4: Activate Your Networks. Also, activate your ambassadors.

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Cut Through the Clutter: Why Storytelling Matters for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Michelle Chen , an independent scholar who recently graduated with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. The World Wildlife Fund uses the juxtaposition of images to create a story of how human actions and decisions have endangered wildlife. Give your donors a peek behind the curtain.

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How Charities Get Tech Support in Uganda

Tech Soup

For his day job, Robert runs Communications without Borders and the NGO Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization. As an unpaid volunteer, he organizes NetSquared in-person events where people from NGOs from all over the region come to talk shop and help each other. We also have individuals who are not attached to an NGO.

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Interview: Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink on the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Agency for International Development and for an international NGO. Thorn use AI to analyze the content of online ads to identify clusters of suspicious activity. Google has supported ZSL’s work to use technology to improve their monitoring through remote cameras placed in wildlife areas to capture activity.

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Advancing Social Media Measurement for Philanthropic Outcomes #sm_re

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click to See Larger Image and Full Data by Marc Smith. GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. Radio Bilingue. The map above depicts everyone who was tweeting during the Tweet Chat.

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How Security Breaches Really Happen at Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

Unless your nonprofit or NGO has specific adversaries or is being spear phished , the hacking you may encounter is probably less sophisticated and less targeted. Image 1 : Brian Klug / CC BY-NC. Image 2 : Symantec. The well-publicized attacks on Target , Community Health Systems , and Home Depot recently were the first type.

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How Drones Are Being Used to Benefit Humankind

Tech Soup

Conservation mapping and 3D imaging. In December 2013, drones from the NGO Direct Relief were put to work assessing damage and participating in search and rescue operations in the super typhoon Haiyan-stricken Philippines. They also show promise in environmental monitoring, rescue activities, and agriculture. Image 3 : U.S.

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